Karel van Mander the Elder
Flemish painter, poet and art historian (1548-1606) · Netherlands · On the map · Artists · Died at 58
Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 - 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, playwright, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life.
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Portrait of a man, Kunsthistorisches Museum
The adoration of the golden calf, Frans Hals Museum
Garden of Love, 1602, Hermitage Museum
Landscape with snow and the Crucifixion, 1599, Private Collection
Crossing the Jordan, 1605, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Massacre of the Innocents (1600), Hermitage MuseumAbout this person
He is mainly remembered as a biographer of Early Netherlandish painters and Northern Renaissance artists in his Schilder-boeck. As an artist and art theoretician he played a significant role in the spread and development of Northern Mannerism in the Dutch Republic.
